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In life, every person experiences different situations that require assessment, evoke emotions, and result in a reaction. When we, as human beings, have such experiences and demands are made upon us, we must be able to respond and recover. The capacity to respond to, recover from, and manage the experiences, demands, crises, and/or traumas we find stressful or overwhelming is known as coping. Coping can also be defined as the ability to manage the internal and external stresses/demands placed upon a person, or traumas/crises faced by a person, when those demands, stresses, traumas, and/or crises are greater than the resources available to him or her. Thus, coping is the ability to tackle the difficulties of life and take the actions necessary to overcome them.
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Johnson, B.L. (2013). Coping. In: Loue, S. (eds) Mental Health Practitioner's Guide to HIV/AIDS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5283-6_26
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